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Do you have symptoms of short-term memory loss or Attention Deficit Disorder?
If you’re a regular reader of The Press, take this test about local Ohio High School State Champions to determine how serious your condition is. Our area has been blessed with many excellent athletes so my apologies to those omitted.
If you score:
13—16 Congrats. You could give Watson, the IBM Jeopardy champ, a challenge.
9—12 You’re slowly slipping into oblivion. Do Sudoku and crosswords
5—8 Eat blueberries. Drink pomegranate juice. Get a Blackberry.
0—4 Brace for the electrodes. You’re toast.
1) These Eagles won the 1979 Class A state championship in baseball.
a. Eastwood
b. Clay
2) This Oregon school won the 1985 Class AA state championship in wrestling.
a. Clay
b. Cardinal Stritch
3) This Sandusky County School won Division IV state championships in softball in 2001, 2002 and 2003.
a. Woodmore
b. Gibsonburg
4) This Wood County high school won the Division II state championship in boys track in 2009 and 2010.
a. Northwood
b. Eastwood
5) This Sandusky County school won Division IV state championships in girls cross country in 1992, 1993 and 1994.
a. Woodmore
b. Gibsonburg
6) This Sandusky County school won the 2005 state championship in baseball, the only school to do so with a losing record (14-17).
a. Gibsonburg
b. Woodmore
7) These Eagles won the 2009 state championship in bowling.
a. Clay
b. Eastwood
8) This SLL school won a boys state championship in golf in both 1979 and 1981.
a. Genoa
b. Woodmore
9) This SLL school won the 1993 state championship in girls track.
a. Lake
b. Woodmore
10) Matt and Nate Opblinger won the 2011 state championship in hockey with St. Francis de Sales High School. They live in this town.
a. Oregon
b. Northwood
11) Since 2004, The Pendelton sisters (Emily, Erin and Carly) from Woodmore have won seven state championships in this event.
a. Shot put
b. Discus
12) Brittany Ten Eyck won Lake’s only state championships when she competed in this sport in 2006 and 2007.
a. 1 meter diving
b. 100 meter butterfly
13) Genoa’s Brad Szypka won a 2011 Division II state championship in the discus. He will throw for this college next season
a. University of Kentucky
b. Mount Union
14) Waite’s Mark Kerr won a Division I state championship in wrestling, a NCAA championship with Syracuse University and fought professionally in mixed martial arts. He was the subject of a documentary entitled:
a. Waite’s Wicked Assassin
b. The Smashing Machine
15) This Oak Harbor wrestler was a two-time high school state champion and a three time NCAA All American
at The Ohio State University.
a. George Bergman
b. J.D. Bergman
16) Greg Goad was a three-time state champ in the mid-1980s. He won his first title at Swanton and the last two at this school before moving on to wrestle for The Ohio State University.
a. Oak Harbor
b. Waite
Answers: 1) b; 2) b; 3) b; 4) b: 5) a; 6) a; 7) b; 8) b; 9) b: 10) b; 11) b; 12) a; 13) a: 14) b; 15) b; 16) a.
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